Free Web NovelAfter consecutively detonating several palm prints, seeing the River God's expression grow increasingly tense, Lu Yibei estimated that He had completely believed the ability she had fabricated, and the gaze lingering on the great ship's hull became more and more unrestrained.
Although there weren't many palm prints left on the ship, as long as she found the River God's vital point and kept her gaze fixed on it, it would be enough to break His last psychological defense, right?
Lu Yibei was secretly thinking when she suddenly heard the River God shout.
"Wait a moment, wait a moment, everything can be discussed, let's sit down and have a good talk!"
The sudden shout entered her ears, startling Lu Yibei. She almost reflexively raised her hand to throw a barrage of Spells, but after distinguishing the content of the River God's words, she narrowed her eyes slightly.
Why is He suddenly so agitated?
Could it be that the places I looked at just now contain His vital points?
Lu Yibei muttered to herself, recalling the parts of the great ship her gaze had lingered on just now, and then, while moving her gaze to wander over those parts, she subtly observed the River God's reaction.
The entrance to the cabin, the River God's expression was solemn, not there.
The carving on the starboard side, the River God's expression gradually relaxed, definitely not there.
The bow deck, the River God hesitated to speak, most likely not there either.
The third mast from the left...
Seeing Lu Yibei's gaze move away from the mast, the River God was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when He immediately saw her gaze wander restlessly again, finally returning to the mast, that heart that was suspended in mid-air and hadn't yet fallen to the ground, once again soaring into the clouds.
"Wait, wait! Can't we just talk it over properly?"
Lu Yibei looked at the River God, then at the mast, then back at the River God, and then back at the mast. After her gaze bounced back and forth several times, she noticed that the River God's face was changing colors like an out-of-control traffic light, constantly shifting between green and red, and finally, she made a decision in her heart.
It seems like the mast is this guy's vital point...
Although there are no palm prints on this thing, does that matter?
This absurd ability to make anyone explode just by looking at them, whether others believe it or not, as long as the River God believes it, that's enough. If you don't believe me, have someone come and ask Him if He dares to try it and let me look a little longer.
Lu Yibei muttered to herself, looking at the River God, her gaze deepening, and said proudly, "You want to talk, right? Alright! However, before that, shouldn't you do something else first?"
"Something, something else?" The River God stammered, His eyes filled with confusion.
"Calamity, I think you shouldn't waste your breath on Him. He came to offend you rashly, yet He shows no remorse at all. I'm afraid He thinks you're easy to bully, and He might test your bottom line again and again in the future!" Xing Yuan shouted.
Hearing this, the River God immediately understood and hurriedly said, "No, no, it's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!"
Isn't it just an apology?
As a King of Weird Tales of a region, His dignity has been offended, yet He didn't strike with lethal force, only requiring a reasonable explanation and a sincere apology. He is already very magnanimous.
Reasonable, this is very reasonable!
The River God muttered to himself and bowed slightly to Lu Yibei, saying with a sincere attitude, "Calamity, regarding this offensive act, I hereby offer you my sincerest apologies."
"However, this offense was not without cause, it was all because the village chief of Baiyanzi Village invited me with a ghost opera, and only then did I..."
Lu Yibei's peripheral vision coldly swept over the River God, interrupting Him, "So, you mean you are not wrong, and all the mistakes are the village chief's?"
As she spoke, she looked at the great ship's mast again.
What exactly is that thing? Is it the core of the urban legend's body?
The River God's heart tightened, and He repeatedly said, "No, no, I am also wrong, I am also wrong."
Isn't it just admitting a mistake? This is easy to say, it won't cost me a piece of flesh, but not admitting it will cost me a piece of flesh...
"Hmph!" Lu Yibei snorted, "Since that's the case, considering you didn't intentionally offend me, I will spare you this time, but..."
The word "but" is very subtle, and every time it appears, the situation always changes. When the River God heard it, His heart tightened, and His Adam's apple nervously bobbed.
Just then, Lu Yibei spoke the remaining half of the sentence, "You have to hand over that village chief for me to deal with, and then withdraw from the Hua City area, never to offend again."
At the very least, she needed to know what method that village chief used to successfully avoid the detection of the Huacheng Barrier and the earth's energy, and bring two urban legend into Hua City.
If this "hole" isn't plugged, then there will be foreign urban legend causing trouble every few days, and I won't be able to live my life. Lu Yibei thought.
"This..." The River God looked troubled.
"What?" Lu Yibei looked at the River God expressionlessly, her gaze slightly raised, "Are you not quite satisfied with my decision? Or, as Yuan said, will you still look for opportunities to offend in the future?"
"Calamity is merciful, and this humble one is deeply grateful. I can guarantee that I will withdraw from the Hua City area and never offend again. If you don't believe me, I can even sign a contract with you."
"It's just that village chief, I really can't hand him over."
"Why?" Lu Yibei frowned.
"He ran away long ago after the wish was completed," the River God explained, "He didn't even hand over the agreed-upon sacrifice to me."
"It is also because of this that I have been lingering on this river, looking for an opportunity to reclaim what is rightfully mine, who would have thought..."
Who would have thought I would be so unlucky? I clearly thought that capturing a beautiful girl and giving away a married woman for free had already stopped the loss, but it ended up attracting such an evil and powerful urban legend?
Damn it, although I have some doubts about her ability, I have no courage to test it at all, it's too frustrating.
As the River God was thinking, His eyes suddenly lit up, and He hurriedly looked at Lu Yibei, saying, "However, Calamity, the actress that village chief invited is still on my ship, she might know some clues!"
"Oh?" Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly, staring at the River God, and silently looked at His mast.
Seeing this, Xing Yuan interjected, "Calamity, I think this River God's attitude of repentance is quite good, why don't you accept some compensation from Him and send Him away? Harmony is precious, harmony is precious!"
If we keep forcing Him like this, it's hard to guarantee that He won't jump over the wall when cornered, and then there might be unexpected complications that affect the innocent. Xing Yuan muttered to herself.
Seemingly guessing Xing Yuan's thoughts, Lu Yibei withdrew her gaze, "Since Yuan has pleaded for you, you can hand over that actress to me, sign the contract, and offer compensation, and then you can leave."
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The stone that had been hanging in the River God's heart finally fell, and He bowed slightly, saying, and as He spoke, the giant water ball wrapping the ship's body churned with water.
Immediately after, a woman with a good figure, wearing a thin white dress and painted with flower face makeup, along with her accompanying opera costumes and luggage, was lifted by the surging water flow and sent to the open space in front of Lu Yibei.
After observing the woman for a while, Lu Yibei turned and winked at Xing Yuan, who understood and walked forward, casting a Spell to control the unconscious urban legend woman.
The tacit understanding between the two made Bai Kai's heart ache.
How long have you two known each other?
Why does it look like you've been best friends for many years?
I, I'm so angry!
Thus, the first incident of foreign urban legend invading that Lu Yibei encountered after becoming the Huacheng Monster King ended without triggering a large-scale battle.
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Half an hour later, the surging river water had receded, and the air still carried a hint of dryness.
Lu Yibei stood on the western platform of the Baiyanzi Village clearing, which had largely collapsed, and watched the River God, who had returned to His original form, slowly sail into the mist along the winding and narrow river.
From afar, a figure ran out of the ship's cabin, stood on the deck, raised a stiff arm, and waved at her as if saying goodbye. After a brief pause, the figure silently retreated back into the cabin and disappeared into the thick fog with the gradually receding great ship.
At this moment, Xing Yuan strolled to Lu Yibei's side and praised, "Good acting, and you resolved the crisis without triggering a battle. Honestly, it's a real pity that you couldn't sign a contract with the Night Watch."
"Would you sign that kind of contract?" Lu Yibei pouted.
"..." Xing Yuan was speechless, then chuckled, "You're right, there are indeed many unreasonable clauses, but that's my job, I hope you understand."
"Understood." Lu Yibei nodded.
"However, there's something I'm a little curious about. Did you just let the Ship God leave like that?"
Lu Yibei didn't answer Xing Yuan's question directly, but just nodded slightly.
"Ship God? That's a fitting name."
According to the River God's self-narration, He is a urban legend born from the legend in the area surrounding Hua City: 【White ship, River God receives tribute, red ship, River God takes a bride】, so His body is a ship, and it seems not wrong to call Him the Ship God.
"If I didn't let Him go, would I have to fight Him to the death?"
While Lu Yibei was speaking, Xing Yuan secretly observed her expression, and after not seeing anything, she frowned slightly.
"There must be another reason, right? I saw you whispering with the River God for a long time just now."
"..."
Lu Yibei remained silent.
She had indeed whispered with the River God for a long time after signing the alliance contract with Him. Her original intention was to ask the River God for Guihua.
She had thought that the words "you will die if you get off the ship" were lies the River God used to scare the women in red on the ship, forcing them to be bound to Him.
However...
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"Calamity, what Guihua said is true, and I have no intention of deceiving you. Honestly, the latest of my wives to board the ship was over a hundred years ago."
“If it weren't for me painstakingly expending a large amount of Spiritual Energy to extend their lives, they would have long since perished.”
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“Over the years, they have long since integrated with my Spiritual Energy. If they are too far away, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive,” the River God told Lu Yibei.
“Why do you do this?” Lu Yibei asked, puzzled. urban legend expending Spiritual Energy to extend human life seemed quite rare to her.
“After all, they are my wives...” the River God said.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei suddenly felt that this fellow, the River God, wasn't as bad as she had imagined, but the words that followed immediately made her want to beat the River God to death.
The River God spread his arms as if to embrace something, and said softly, “Whether they want to or not, I love every single one of them!”
Lu Yibei, “...” You dog! It's really a case of some dying of thirst while others are flooded!
As she muttered inwardly, she glanced at the mast of the large ship and asked curiously, “Oh, speaking of which, what exactly is your mast? Is it very important?”
“This...” The River God looked troubled, his eyes darting left and right slyly. He leaned close to Lu Yibei's ear and whispered a few words.
The next moment, Lu Yibei's delicate little face turned bright red.
“Are you an exhibitionist? Get lost, hurry up and get lost! If you don't leave now, I'll blow you up!” Lu Yibei growled, holding her forehead.
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the River God shrink his neck, rise into the air, transform into a stream of water, and merge into the large ship, fleeing in a sorry state.
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So, when you're alive, sometimes don't be so curious!
I♦ shouldn't have asked him in the first place.
I wonder if looking at that kind of ghostly thing will cause me to get a sty later.
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, looked at Xing Yuan, and said lightly, “It's just some small matter, it won't endanger Hua City's safety.”
“Is that so?” Xing Yuan nodded. “That's good. However, you clearly had a chance to make him sign the 【Deed of Sale】 just now. That thing is still in your hands, isn't it?”
Hearing this, Lu Yibei looked at Xing Yuan and blinked her watery big eyes. “Godmother, I, I forgot to bring that thing with me when I went out!”
If I signed that thing, wouldn't I become a lackey of the Night Watch?
My identity might be exposed someday, and then I'll be stripped of my Night Watch membership, put on the wanted list, and fall into danger.
If I just casually sign a 【Deed of Sale】 with a powerful urban legend, wouldn't that be equivalent to helping the enemy? I'm not stupid! Lu Yibei thought.
Hearing that “Godmother,” a trace of sweetness welled up in Xing Yuan's heart, and she immediately suppressed the thought of exposing Lu Yibei. She smiled shyly, “Not, not yet. Let's talk about the change of address later.”
“Why not? In my heart, you already are,” Lu Yibei said with determination.
The method of selling out Shui Ge was becoming increasingly skilled.
Xing Yuan's lips parted slightly, about to say something to Lu Yibei, when at this moment, Bai Kai, who had finished treating the poisoned and unconscious actor, came over.
“Xiao, uh, Calamity, the toxins in that guy's body have been temporarily controlled. He should wake up after resting for a day or two, it shouldn't take long.”
“Oh, what were you two just talking about?” Bai Kai asked.
This is the main point, I want to hear!
Hearing this, Lu Yibei and Xing Yuan exchanged glances and said in unison, “Girls' secrets!”
Bai Kai, “???”
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Why is Xiao Bei so skilled?
How many times has she done this behind my back?
Lu Ming, you two look closely, I didn't teach her this, she learned to be bad on her own!
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Late the next night, deep in the underground parking lot of Happiness Community.
In the pitch-black space, a woman dressed in a thin white garment was placed on a stone platform. A finger-thick pale blue light beam pierced her body, shackling her joints.
A turbid and cold wind swept through, and she suddenly woke up, her eyes snapping open. Seeing the scene before her, her pupils constricted.
Gray mist drifted, like omnipresent lonely spirits, filling the entire space. The figures of a large number of urban legend loomed in the gray mist, some grotesque, some terrifying and ferocious, some eerie and mysterious. The faint fluctuations of Spiritual Energy that emanated made her feel fear.
But these urban legend, which she usually avoided at all costs, were unusually quiet. Occasionally, greedy gazes were cast her way, but there were no transgressive actions.
All of this was because of that Qingyi girl.
That girl sat on a precious seat carved from cypress roots shaped like a coiled dragon in front. Her eyes, which glowed with a faint golden-red light, cast a cold gaze, possessing a hint of the air of being the only one in the world.
Someone who could command a group of urban legend must be the legendary newly promoted King of Weird Tales of Hua City.
But...
Wasn't I rehearsing on the River God's boat? How did I get caught here?
The urban legend woman thought, almost fainting again. Just then, the voice of the Qingyi girl came faintly from the front.
“Name?”
Lu Yibei said softly, and felt a surge of satisfaction in her heart after speaking.
Before, others always asked me, but now it's finally my turn to ask others!
“Uh... this...” The urban legend woman opened her mouth and said weakly, “Bie, Bie Suzhen.”
Good heavens! Are you going to cause trouble for me with the first question?
With such a strong accent, can you really sing opera? Lu Yibei's eyebrows twitched, but she patiently and expressionlessly pressed on, “Age?”
“Sixteen...”
Sixteen my foot! Do you think I'll believe your ghostly words?
Lu Yibei frowned, and out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the enormous, bucket-sized, green human head with stark white fangs floating behind her, and said lightly, “Ghost Face, she's not being honest! Drag her down and add her to the little ones' meal!”
Hearing this, the green human head opened its bloody maw, stuck out its crimson tongue, and licked its lips, which were covered in sores, spilling a foul-smelling, sticky liquid all over the ground.
“Wait, wait!” Bie Suzhen saw this and quickly shouted, “Ninety-six, ninety-six!”
Lu Yibei held up a hand to signal the urban legend called Ghost Face to stay calm and retreat for now, and continued to press, “Where did you come from? How did you get here?”
“Lanruo Inn Brothel...”
“...” Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then glanced at Ghost Face out of the corner of her eye and said lightly, “Ghost Face, take her down and add her to the little ones' meal.”
As the words fell, Ghost Face's figure suddenly lunged forward, scaring Bie Suzhen until her face turned pale.
“Adult, Adult, spare me! I really came from the Lanruo Inn Brothel!” she cried out, her voice choked with sobs. “It was that guy surnamed Zhang who spent three hundred chips to invite me to sing opera for him! We came by the giant train.”
“Wait a minute!”
Finally hearing useful information, Lu Yibei's eyes narrowed, and she stopped Ghost Face again.
She rose from the precious seat and walked over to Bie Suzhen, narrowing her eyes and saying, “What kind of person is surnamed Zhang? What's with the three hundred chips?”
“This...” Bie Suzhen looked at Lu Yibei with surprise and uncertainty, hesitating to speak.
She was a little hesitant, worried that after she confessed everything, she would be immediately sent to be “added to the meal.”
“Adult, if I tell you, can you let me go?”
Hearing this, Lu Yibei frowned slightly, stepped aside, and waved her hand, “Ghost Face, add to the meal!”
“Awoo—!” Ghost Face howled and lunged towards Bie Suzhen, its foul-smelling sticky liquid almost splashing onto her face.
“I'll tell you! I'll tell you! The one surnamed Zhang is the village chief of Baiyanzi Village, and the chips are, are the universal chips for the Dream Come True Journey! Ah—don't come over!”
Either way, it's a death sentence, so I might as well confess everything and try my luck. Bie Suzhen thought.
“Ghost Face, retreat!”
Ghost Face, “???” Does the Disaster want me to eat or not? I'm so anxious!
Ghost Face reluctantly retreated, and Lu Yibei stepped forward. “Universal chips? Do they look like this?”
As she spoke, she took out a chip with a denomination of “10” and placed it in front of Bie Suzhen.
Bie Suzhen glanced at the chip, her eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly, “Yes, yes, yes, these are the universal chips for the Dream Come True Journey. So you've been there already? Then why are you still...”
“Stop the nonsense!” Lu Yibei interrupted. “I'm asking you, where do you take that giant train, and how do you take it?”
Bie Suzhen originally thought Lu Yibei had already been to the Dream Come True Journey. She was stunned for two seconds before responding, “The, the station in Hua City should be in the abandoned subway station at the entrance of the West Train Station. If, if you want to go, I, I can lead the way for you.”
“Ghost Face! Take her down!” Lu Yibei said coldly.
Bie Suzhen, “!!!”
“Entertain her well...”
Ghost Face, whose large mouth had almost completely enveloped Bie Suzhen, “???”
